Mechanical Circulatory Support - Part 1

In the first part of this two-part series, Dr. Zanotti is joined by Bindu Akkanti, MD, an associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at UTHealth Houston. Together, they discuss temporary mechanical circulatory support, an increasingly vital modality in treating cardiogenic shock and other subsets of critically ill patients in shock. Dr. Akkanti is the Medical Director of the Heart Failure ICU and the Director of Critical Care for the Heart & Vascular Institute at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center.